Border Wall Construction Is Literally Blowing Up Site of Native American Burial Grounds, Lawmaker Says
An Arizona lawmaker is raising the alarm about the federal government’s U.S.-Mexico border wall construction — which, he said, is literally blowing up the location of sacred Native American burial grounds. Rep. Raúl Grijalvawrote in a Jan. 7 letterto the Department of Homeland Security that he’d spoken with leaders from the Tohono O’odham Nation tribe who were upset about how the department was moving forward with construction of PresidentDonald Trump’s controversial wall along the Mexican border....